Mixed Seed Patch Days 5-6: Finally sowed the patches 🌱

Yesterday I skipped on the blog about these patches because my eyes were tired and my head hurt from all the screen time. I don't think I had ever blogged so many consecutive days, and I'm impressed by the people who manage to do it daily, and with quality posts. Maybe it's just a thing of habit and with time it becomes easier.

That I didn't blog doesn't mean I didn't work on the patches though. First thing I did after getting out of bed was putting the beans and broad beans to soak.

Meanwhile I spent some time experimenting on what could be some mini-hothouses for my cannabis and tomato plants. There's no way I'm going to pull off a big greenhouse this year, I have too much work with the fences already. But I have a three cannabis plants and around 10 tomato plants that will need a shelter or will end up dying at the first frost.

I had already cut and peeled these willow branches, mainly to use the bark as ties for the fence. I thought of building a small tipi with them.

I evened their lengths and gave them a point at the bottom so it would be easy to drive them into the ground.

I've never done this so keep in mind I'm just playing and learning from the process. This is the basic idea though it would help if the branches all had the same shape, but it's really hard to find that in this forest because all the willows have grown extremely crooked. Of course, we can't have those sharp points sticking out or they will rip the plastic apart.

I figured that with a ring at the top I could get some space to place a cut bottle that would protect the plastic from the branches.

Something like that... I'll keep on experimenting more with this. Too bad none of the recycled plastics I tried out were the right size or were in decent condition to be used on this. But there are more in my pile of potentially reusable material so I have to dig in there to find a proper one.

After letting them sit there all day, when the sunlight was beginning to decrease, I went to finally get those seeds in the soil.

Back to the seeds

Luckily for me, the previous night it rained. I considered myself quite blessed in this regard, as every time I put seeds in the soil it rains. It is a rare occasion when this doesn't happen. I don't even look at the weather, it just happens. I do follow the Moon and perhaps it has a connection. It was a nice sight, the diversity of seeds on that moist soil.

Nevermind the crazy blurry spiral of energy at the center 😮

It's pretty obvious that a lot of these seeds won't make it. But that doesn't matter, at least they're not just stored away in a box, losing their germination potential. Also, those that don't make it will serve as nutrients for the ones that do.

Loving the different colors 😍

Everything but the beans was randomly tossed out. The beans were given more space from each other.

Complete list of seeds thrown into these patches:

• Chard
• Dill
• Redcurrant
• Kale
• Beans
• Amaranth
• Arugula
• Tomatoes
• Parsley
• Romanesco
• Pennyroyal mint
• Red mustard
• Beans
• Broad beans
• Lettuce

Finally, the patches covered with more good soil from the forest.

I don't know what else I can blog regarding this project until the seeds begin sprouting. I'll see what I can do to speed up the process or increase the etheric energy put into these patches. If I come up with something I'll let you know.

Thanks for your time and attention!